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Then it is not.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Eat not the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his dainties,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For as he hath thought in his soul, so [is] he, ‘Eat and drink,’ saith he to thee, And his heart [is] not with thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thy morsel thou hast eaten thou dost vomit up, And hast marred thy words that [are] sweet.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For their Redeemer [is] strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let not thy heart be envious at sinners, But — in the fear of Jehovah all the day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For, is there a posterity? Then thy hope is not cut off.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And make happy in the way thy heart,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a strait pit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Who hath wo? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Its latter end — as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And thou hast been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/23-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>‘They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. 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